AuthorTopic: grub not offered at install (Read 14537 times)

Just install VL7. I had read on this forum that both lilo and grub would offered as boot loader options during install. Grub wasn't and it should be. I can't access my other linux installations with lilo. I can with grub. I opened gslapt to see that grub was already installed but it is not configured nor is it used as the default boot loader. Re-installing it doesn't automatically configure it like I read that it would in this forum.

vector://home/vlroot:# /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfigGenerating grub.cfg ...## DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE## It is automatically generated by grub-mkconfig using templates# from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub#

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/40_custom #### This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply type the# menu entries you want to add after this comment. Be careful not to change# the 'exec tail' line above.### END /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###

There was no option to use grub as a boot loader. There were only options to not install lilo or where to install lilo. Believe me, if there was a grub option, I would have used it. I have already re-installed VL7 after it wouldn't boot due to my grub installation efforts.

That's very nice. Just my luck I'd pick the wrong one. Now that I have installed and re-installed VL7 on my hard drive, I would like to know how to make grub2 my boot loader instead lilo, or is that not possible.

I downloaded the VL7.0-STD-GOLD.iso. I used unetbootin, but it never got past the video resolution part of the installation. It just kept rebooting at that point. The tutorial for making a bootable usb without unetbootin didn't work either. It wouldn't boot.

cp VL7.0-STD-GOLD.iso /dev/sda3then it worked. After completing the installation and selecting the grub configuration, grub didn't list my LMDE installation that the installer found and wouldn't boot my Arch installation that the installer didn't find, yet showed up in the grub menu. I copy/pasted my LMDE entry in /boot/grub/grub.cfg to Vector /boot/grub/grub.cfg, booted into LMDE.

The howto's and other posts, about changing to grub from lilo, in this forum, are outdated, most referring to grub 0.99 not grub2 1.99.

Could someone make a howto for the current version of Vector Linux, please?

Good suggestion, I'll see what I can do.

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The tutorial for making a bootable usb without unetbootin didn't work either. It wouldn't boot.

Was concerned about video not working for you so I tested it again. Worked for me here. There is a step where you have to use issue a command in the terminal...syslinux /dev/sdxx (/dev/sdxx being were your usbstick in addressed in /dev)It's at that step that you make the usb stick bootable.

Yeah, the bug with our grub2 not seeing other linux's is the one that got by the dev's and the testers this release cycle. I think you will have a smoother ride, from here on.

changing from lilo to grub is pretty easy. you were very close to completing it in your first post, but when you run "grub-mkconfig" you have to tell it to write the config or it just writes to stdout.

Was concerned about video not working for you so I tested it again. Worked for me here. There is a step where you have to use issue a command in the terminal...syslinux /dev/sdxx (/dev/sdxx being were your usbstick in addressed in /dev)It's at that step that you make the usb stick bootable.

syslinux /dev/sdb1Another suggestion for the tutorial, if its possible, is to edit out the mistake where he uses isomaster to extract VL7.0-STD-GOLD.iso to the desktop. So that everyone who is following the video, step by step, doesn't have to repeat his error. There are pauses in the tutorial before and after the mistake that would make good cut points.